> I am currently developing a project which tries to minimize the > consumption of battery in laptops avoiding as much as possible the use of > the hard drive. To evaluate if our implementation is doing well, we need > to know how is the consumption of energy in the laptop or even better how > much power consumes the hard drive in a period of time. Thank you all guys for the quick response, all responses seems useful. My next question in the topic is: is there an easy way to find the battery information (remaining energy, consumption each hour) through a module? Luis. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/